English
Related papers

Related papers: You Are What You Say: Exploiting Linguistic Conten…

200 papers

It is now well-known that automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems can be spoofed using various types of adversaries. The usual approach to counteract ASV systems against such attacks is to develop a separate spoofing countermeasure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Kong Aik Lee , Tomi Kinnunen

Speech and speaker recognition systems are employed in a variety of applications, from personal assistants to telephony surveillance and biometric authentication. The wide deployment of these systems has been made possible by the improved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Hadi Abdullah , Kevin Warren , Vincent Bindschaedler , Nicolas Papernot , Patrick Traynor

Speaker verification (SV) systems are currently being used to make sensitive decisions like giving access to bank accounts or deciding whether the voice of a suspect coincides with that of the perpetrator of a crime. Ensuring that these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mariel Estevez , Luciana Ferrer

Security of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems is compromised by various spoofing attacks. While many types of non-proactive attacks (and their defenses) have been studied in the past, attacker's perspective on ASV, represents a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Rohan Kumar Das , Xiaohai Tian , Tomi Kinnunen , Haizhou Li

In the scenario of the Voice Privacy challenge, anonymization is achieved by converting all utterances from a source speaker to match the same target identity; this identity being randomly selected. In this context, an attacker with maximum…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

We present results and analyses from the third VoicePrivacy Challenge held in 2024, which focuses on advancing voice anonymization technologies. The task was to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data that conceals a speaker's…

With the popularity of virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Alexa), the use of speech recognition is now becoming more and more widespread.However, speech signals contain a lot of sensitive information, such as the speaker's identity, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Pierre Champion , Denis Jouvet , Anthony Larcher

We consider technology-assisted mimicry attacks in the context of automatic speaker verification (ASV). We use ASV itself to select targeted speakers to be attacked by human-based mimicry. We recorded 6 naive mimics for whom we select…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-12 Tomi Kinnunen , Rosa González Hautamäki , Ville Vestman , Md Sahidullah

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems in practice are greatly vulnerable to spoofing attacks. The latest voice conversion technologies are able to produce perceptually natural sounding speech that mimics any target speakers. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Xiaohai Tian , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

In order to protect the privacy of speech data, speaker anonymization aims for hiding the identity of a speaker by changing the voice in speech recordings. This typically comes with a privacy-utility trade-off between protection of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sarina Meyer , Pascal Tilli , Pavel Denisov , Florian Lux , Julia Koch , Ngoc Thang Vu

Collecting speech data is an important step in training speech recognition systems and other speech-based machine learning models. However, the issue of privacy protection is an increasing concern that must be addressed. The current study…

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems use a playback detector to filter out playback attacks and ensure verification reliability. Since current playback detection models are almost always trained using genuine and played-back speech,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Fuming Fang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Logical Access (LA) attacks, also known as audio deepfake attacks, use Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Voice Conversion (VC) methods to generate spoofed speech data. This can represent a serious threat to Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV)…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anacin , Angela , Shruti Kshirsagar , Anderson R. Avila

Given the increasing privacy concerns from identity theft and the re-identification of speakers through content in the speech field, this paper proposes a prompt-based speech generation pipeline that ensures dual anonymization of both…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Belinda Soh Hui Hui , Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang

While audio recordings in real life provide insights into social dynamics and conversational behavior, they also raise concerns about the privacy of personal, sensitive data. This article explores the effectiveness of restricting recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Jule Pohlhausen , Jörg Bitzer

Modeling voice identity is challenging due to its multifaceted nature. In generative speech systems, identity is often assessed using automatic speaker verification (ASV) embeddings, designed for discrimination rather than characterizing…

Speaker anonymization aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving content information in speech. Current mainstream neural-network speaker anonymization systems disentangle speech into prosody-related, content, and speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xiaoxiao Miao , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Junichi Yamagishi , Natalia Tomashenko

This paper presents a new voice impersonation attack using voice conversion (VC). Enrolling personal voices for automatic speaker verification (ASV) offers natural and flexible biometric authentication systems. Basically, the ASV systems do…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Taiki Nakamura , Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yusuke Ijima , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The widespread of powerful personal devices capable of collecting voice of their users has opened the opportunity to build speaker adapted speech recognition system (ASR) or to participate to collaborative learning of ASR. In both cases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Salima Mdhaffar , Jean-François Bonastre , Marc Tommasi , Natalia Tomashenko , Yannick Estève

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is one of the core technologies in biometric identification. With the ubiquitous usage of ASV systems in safety-critical applications, more and more malicious attackers attempt to launch adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Haibin Wu , Xu Li , Andy T. Liu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Hung-yi Lee